MILWAUKEE
— On Thursday, the Medical College of Wisconsin
announced that it has been gifted $37.8 million dollars
from the Kern family and the Kern Family Foundation. The
money will be used to create a new national Kern
Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education.

The
Kern institute will join six other medical schools
around the country to become a national leader in
transforming and redefining medical education. The six
medical schools are the Geisel School of Medicine at
Dartmouth, Dell Medical School at UT Austin, the
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health, the Mayo Clinic School
of Medicine, the Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine and UCSF School of Medicine.

In
addition to the gift from the Kern family and the Kern
Family Foundation, Steve Roell, chair of the MCW Board
of Trustees, and his wife, Shelagh, established the
Steven and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair of the Kern
Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education.
Cheryl A. Maurana, founding director of the Kern
Institute, has been named as the inaugural holder of the
Stephen and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair.